The UN report was leaked to the media in late June. Foreign Policy magazine revealed information [JURIST report] from the report last month, but the Rwandan government rejected the allegations. Earlier in June, Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the Rwandan government to stop [JURIST report] assisting accused DRC war criminal, General Bosco Ntaganda [ICC case materials], who is wanted by the ICC. In 2010, a UN report claimed [JURIST report] that troops from Rwanda had committed crimes in the DRC that could amount to genocide. The unrest in the eastern part of the DRC has been a focus of the international community recently. Last week, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay expressed concern [JURIST report] about the safety of the civilians in the region. Last month, former ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo sought the immediate arrest [JURIST report] of Ntaganda along with Sylvestre Mudacumura [ICC fact sheet, PDF], a foreign militia leader in the DRC.

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